Furniture-handle.



No. 808,533. PATENTED DEC. 26, 1905.

G. FRANK.

FURNITURE HANDLE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.24, 1904.

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GUSTAV FRANK, OF JEFFERSON, TEXAS.

FURNITURE-HANDLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 26, 1905.

Application filed March 24, 1904,- Serial No. 199,811.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GUSTAV FRANK, a citizen of the United States,residing at Jefferson, in the county of Marion and State of Texas, haveinvented a new and useful Furniture- Handle, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to devices for securing handles of the kind whichare known as drop-handles upon the drawers and other parts of furniture;and its object is to present a device of the class referred to whichshall In the drawings, Figure 1 is a rear view,-

and Fig. 2 is a sectional view, of a portion of a furniture-drawerhaving a drop handle thereon with the improved device retaining the samein position. Fig. 3 is a perspective detail view of the innerconnecting-plate detached.

Corresponding parts are indicated by like characters of referencethroughout the several figures.

In the drawings is illustrated a portion of a drawer-front l0, to whicha handle 11 is applied, said handle being of the ordinary type generallyknown as drop-handles, the same consisting of a yoke or bail havinginturned ends that engage the eyes of a pair of eyebolts l2 13, whichare extended through an escutcheon-plate 12 and through the body of thedrawer-front. The escutcheon-plate is also provided with an annularflange 12 bearing against the drawer-front, whereby a degree ofresiliency will be imparted to the body of said plate.

Upon the inner ends of the bolts is mounted a plate 16 of relativelythin'resilient metal having spaced apertures 17 18 to engage the boltsand provided adjacent to said apertures with struck-up resilient tongues19 20, said tongues being formed between the apertures and faced inopposite directions toward the opposite edges of the plate. This platehaving been adjusted upon the bolts, as shown, the nuts 14 15 are placedupon the bolts and tightened. When the nuts are turned forwardly, thetongues will be depressed by the corners of the nuts and springoutwardly adjacent to the sides of the same, thereby effectuallypreventing any backward turning of said nuts.

Much annoyance has been experienced by the nuts dropping ofl the boltsused to secure drop-handles in position, causing the said handles tobecome detached and oftentimes broken and lost. By this device, whichmay be produced at a very trifling expense, all danger of the nutsbecoming detached is positively avoided.

When the nuts are tightened sufliciently, the eyes of the eyebolts willengage the resilient escutcheon-plate, which will thereby be tightenedto force its edge or flange into positive engagement with thedrawer-front and to prevent rattling.

Having thus described the invention, what i GUSTAV FRANK.

Witnesses:

ALLEN UR UHART, L. B. TODD.

